Nehemiah 6:3, 8
Nehemiah 6:3 NASB1995
So I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work and I cannot come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and come down to you?”
Nehemiah 6:8 NASB1995
Then I sent a message to him saying, “Such things as you are saying have not been done, but you are inventing them in your own mind.”